Lines 347-348:  She twisted words

One of the examples her father gives is odd.  I am quite sure it was I who one day, when we were discussing “mirror words,” observed (and I recall the poet’s expression of stupefaction) that “spider” in reverse is “redips,” and “T.S. Eliot,” “toilest.”  But then it is also true that Hazel Shade resembled me in certain respects.